SSC results Higher pass rate, more GPA 5 scorers Results of the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations this year reflected a significant improvement on all indicators compared to the results of the past years. The pass percentage, the number of highest grade scorers and the number of institutions where all the students passed have ... Read more
Month: May 2012
Rajuk razes Wonderland
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakhha began an eviction drive on Monday to demolish Wonderland amusement park at Gulshan in the capital. Tearing down the main entrance to the amusement park, Rajuk started the drive, led by magistrate Rokon-ud-Doula, following a court order that declared illegal the lease of the land by the
50 Indian double-decker buses arrive
240 more in pipeline Fifty Indian double-decker buses will hit the city roads Tuesday. This will be the first successful project under India’s $1 billion credit agreement inked two years ago. The new buses started arriving in small lots in the last two months. These could have been seen on the Dhaka streets much earlier, ... Read more
Special TV programmes on Tagore Birth Anniversary
“Nirupoma” on ATN Bangla “Nirupoma”, a tele-film based on Rabindranath Tagore’s short story “Dena Paona”, is set to be aired at 3:10pm, May 8 on ATN Bangla. Miron Mohiuddin made the adaptatio, while the tele-film has been directed by Sadek Siddiqui. The cast includes Raisul Islam Asad, Bindu, Sayeed Babu, KS Firoze, Tushar Khan, Ashraf ... Read more
Yunus, Abed talk garment exports with Hillary, seek free access to US
Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus and BRAC Chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed yesterday urged US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to allow Bangladeshi garments duty-free access to the US market to help create local jobs, especially for women. They met Hillary at a breakfast meeting at the US ambassador’s residence in
A journey to ‘Shilaidah Kuthibari’
Programme marking 151st birth anniversary of Tagore Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore’s idyllic ‘Shilaidah Kuthibari’ (mansion) inspired some of the bard’s most famous literary works, including poetry, prose, novels and music. Rabindranath Tagore first came to Shilaidah along with his elder brother Jyotirindranath, in 1876, when he was 15-years-old. Though the brothers came to settle ... Read more
Hillary meets Yunus today
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus would hold a meeting early today at the residence of the US ambassador to Dhaka. The meeting between Prof Yunus and Clinton, an ardent supporter of the pioneer of microcredit, comes almost a year after Prof Yunus resigned from Grameen Bank, which
HSBC honours young entrepreneurs
A team of four budding entrepreneurs yesterday finished as toppers of HSBC Young Entrepreneurs Challenge, after their idea of producing capsule shells from fish fins and scales was rated as the best business concept. The team, called Fireflies comprising Makame Mahmud, Ayasha Sultana,
New Tigers coach likely this month
No sooner had Stuart Law departed yesterday, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) intensified its search for the new head coach. Law’s replacement could be named as early as this month with the major candidates being asked to come to the BCB headquarters and give their interviews. In previous times the BCB had to look for ... Read more
BPL franchises say ‘no’ to icons
The Bangladesh Premier League franchises raised a common voice to scrap the icon player system and to halve the limit of the foreign players’ wages from the next edition of tournament. They raised the demand during a meeting with BCB president AHM Mustafa Kamal last week as they felt the prevailing system sometimes could cause ... Read more
Innovation battle begins
Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012 Innovation battle begins Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition which has been running for almost a decade. Since its inception in 2003, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a truly global competition focused on finding solutions to real world problems. This year too, Microsoft is going ... Read more
Samsung and GP to bring Galaxy Pocket
Samsung mobile is going to launch its new smartphone Samsung Galaxy Pocket exclusively with Grameenphone this month. This mobile phone delivers a rich and smart mobile experience especially for youths and young professionals, who are highly conscious about brand and
Massive rise in eye damage among Asians
Up to 90% of school leavers in major Asian cities are suffering from myopia – short-sightedness – according to a study published yesterday. Researchers say the “extraordinary rise” in the problem is being caused by students working very hard in school and missing out on outdoor
Vidya Balan: From “Dirty Picture” to sanitation
Indian National Award winning Bollywood actress Vidya Balan will now appear in a role dedicated to a social cause. She has been appointed the brand ambassador of India’s Rural Development Ministry to spread awareness about sanitation and cleanliness in the country whose 60 percent of the 1.1 billion population still practice open defecation. According to ... Read more
Law leaves with happy memory
Outgoing national coach Stuart Law leaves the country today with happy memories after completing his nine-month stint with the Bangladesh national cricket team. Law had taken over as the head coach of Bangladesh in July last year on a two-year contract, replacing compatriot Jamie Siddons, but stepped down from the position recently citing family
BTRC to retrieve Tk 2250cr bandwidth from cell operators
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) will be able to retrieve a total of 15 MHz of bandwidth worth Tk 2250 crore from different mobile operators after it completes the systematic re-arrangement of the bandwidth distribution in 1800 MHz band, sources at BTRC have said. 1800 MHz band is the portion of the radio frequency spectrum ... Read more
Migrant workers remain neglected in host countries
Bangladeshi migrant workers remain deprived in terms of protection from violation of rights, safety and security as most of them do not enjoy trade union rights in the receiving countries. The government and labour rights groups at home are also found indifferent on protecting rights of the migrant workers abroad
Former army chief Harun resigns as SCF secy gen
Former army chief and member of board of director of much talked about DESTINY-2000 Ltd, retired Lieutenant General M Harun-Ar-Rashid, on Wednesday resigned as the secretary general of Sector Commanders’ Forum. ‘I handed in my resignation letter to the chairman of the Sector Commanders’ Forum
Historic May Day today
The International Labour Day, widely known as May Day, will be observed in Bangladesh as elsewhere around the world today commemorating the uprising of the working class people who fought for their rights. All industries and factories would remain closed on the day. Red flags will be hoisted at the offices of the political organisations
Crash kills 2 brothers
A Swiss expatriate and his brother died when an ambulance rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Banani on New Airport Road in the capital yesterday morning, during hartal hours. Deceased Ilias Miah, 44, and his brother Nasiruddin Munshi, 42, were heading towards Nawabganj district in Dhaka in an auto-rickshaw as they considered it too risky ... Read more